Insights + Trends
Explore innovations, evolving library workflows, and real stories from libraries worldwide improving the patron experience.

PEN America and Texas Freedom to Read Project shared ways to reach and gather community members who wanted to lend their time and talents to stand against book challenges and threats to librarians.

Walk into the right library and you might meet James, Glinda, or The Bookinator. The technology has product names. The staff have other ideas.

After more than twenty years of planning, Belmont Public Library reopened with a space designed around people, light, and a quieter kind of technology.

What AI is, where libraries are already using it, and key takeaways from Bibliotheca’s most-attended webinar.

Tuning into the future: Discover the Partner Summit ON AIR 2026 in Barcelona, where EMEA & LATAM partners united to broadcast a new era of library innovation.

A practical conversation on AI in libraries, what is changing, what to consider, and how to move forward with confidence.

Explore how quickConnect goes beyond self-checkout, with tools for personalization, promotion, and operational control across the library.

A new locker system extends library access beyond the building, enabling secure, around-the-clock pickup in a range of community locations.

Learn how libraries use quickConnect to promote programs, increase visibility, and engage patrons at selfCheck stations.

Flower Mound Public Library installed smartShelf borrow along a busy patron path, making check-ins and checkouts faster and easier for families and visitors.

Visitors can explore self-service, automation, and access solutions, including remoteLocker+, the Romi mobile library robot, and more.

From MARC records to generative models, library systems have evolved for decades. We trace what’s changed for users and staff — and what libraries must govern next.